Nepal, March 3 -- While in an advanced American hospital, I thought of hospitals back home, villages where women are forced to give birth in cowsheds or even die due to lack of treatment

If you are in a foreign land, no matter who you are, where you are from, or what you do, you are always inclined to compare elements of everyday life around you with that of your country of origin. For example, the road you walk upon, the school you send your children to, the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the hospital you visit, the doctors or nurses you meet, are just some of these. The laundry list goes on. I indulge in this contrasting imagination and wish this would have been my country. I wish I could find the same services back home. The list...